Strip-winding machine



. Aug. 24 ,1926. 1,596,962

. J. H. GEDDES STRIP WINDING MACHINE Filed Oct. 22, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR Jofizz/Y G'eddes A'ITORNE Aug. 24 1926. 1,596,962

' J. H. GEDDES STRIP WINDING MACHINE Filed Oct. 22, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Lfi; INVENTOR 2/0112: E (z eddes ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 24, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. GEDDES, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

STRIP-WINDING MACHINE.

Application filed October 22, 1924. Serial No. 745,128.

facture, easy to manipulate, and very cilicient and durable in use.

With these and other objects in View, there have been illustrated on the accompanying drawings several forms in which the invention may be conveniently embodied in practice.

Fig. 1 represents a vertical sectional view of the first form of strip winding reel taken at right angles of the axis of the core.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the reel core of Fig. 1 showing the construction of the corner socket and clips for securing the innermost separating stick.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of one form of separating member comprising a. wrapper having separating sticks and filling-in blocks attached thereto.

Fig. 4 is an end view of the same.

Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view taken through one of the filling-in blocks and showing the metal side piece depending therefrom.

Fig. 6 is a plan View of a portion of another form of separating member, in which the separating sticks and filling-in blocks are secured to a pair of parallel side strips and are entirely detached from, the wrapper.

Fig. 7 is a transverse sectional view taken along the line 77 of Fig. 6, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Fig. 8 is a sectional view of a separating stick, taken along the line 1212 of Fig. 6.

In the manufacture of rubber shoes and other similar articles made from rubber sheets in the past, it has been the custom before cutting up the sheets of unvulcanized green stock, to allow said sheets to stand 24 hours. For this purpose, the sheeted rubber stock, as it came from the calender, was wound by hand on a suitable reel upon which it was kept until it was desired to use it. H retofore, in winding the sheeted rubber stock upon the reel, it has beennecessary to employ three operators-one 0 erator for turning the reel by hand, w lie the other two operators were employed to insert sticks between the layers of the stock and theseparating wrapper at each quarter of a revolution of the reel. After standing for the required interval, the reel was taken to a cutting table and unwound. During the unwinding process, the separating sticks were pulled out and thrown upon the floor and were later picked up and placed in piles.

By means of the present invention, the above and other disadvantages have been avoided. This has been accomplished by permanently attaching all of the separating sticks to the separating member so that when the latter wound up, the sticks will automatically come into proper position} The labor of inserting them in position and of picking them up after the reel has been unwound will thus be entirely eliminated. It will thus be seen that the present invention comprises a rapid stick-feeding apparatus, wherein a single operator can now do the work of the three formerly required. The present invention will also result in a greater uniformity of product due to the fact that with the old method, there was always the possibility that the operators would neglect to insert the sticks, which would allow the layers of sheeting to stick to the wrappers and result inv excessive scrap.

Reference will now be had to the drawings in which like reference numerals denote corresponding parts throughout the several views. In the first form of strip winding reel, which is shown on Figs. 1-5, the numeral 10 indicates the reel core, which in thepresent illustration is substantially in the shape of a square prism. One corner of the reel core 10 is provided with a rectangular slot 11, into which the innermost spacing stick 17 is adapted to be seated and held in position by two pairs of cooperating clips 12 and 13 respectively, as most clearly shown in Fig. 2. In order to support the reel above the floor, two pairs of alined cross bars 14 and 15 are provided at opposite ends of the core respectively.

In the form of separating member shown in Figs. 1, 8, and 5, provision is made of a wrapper 16 preferably of cloth, to which is attached at progressively increasing distances, a plurality of separating'sticks 17, 18, 19, '20, 2l,'etc., each of said sticks ha ing a recess 21 on its under side to clear the stock wound on the wrapper beneath.

Attached to the wrapper 16 at opposite sides or each separating stick, are a pair or" fillingin blocks 22, the blocks of each pair being adapted to lie at a right angle to each other, serving to accurately position its associated stick at one of the corners of the core 10. As clearly shown in Fig. 1, this construction causes the sticks to lie in two perpendicular planes coinciding with the diagonals of said core. To permit the filiing-in blocks 22 to lie closer to their adjacent sticks, said blocks are provided on their ends with beveled inside faces 23, as shown.

In order to keep the successive layers of sheeting 23 in alinement with each other, each of the filling-in blocks is also provided on its outer edge with a metal side piece 24 adapted to overlap the block immediately beneath.

In Figs. 6 and 7, a modified form of separating member is shown in which, instead of attaching the sticks 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,

21 21" etc. to the wrapper 16, said sticks are secured to the under sides of a pair of narrow side bands 25 and 26 and form a sort of ladder, above which the wrapper 16 is then placed, The filling-in blocks 22, which are identical with those of the pre vious form of separating member shown in Figs. 15, are also secured to the side bands 25 instead of to the wrapper. Moreover, in this form of separating member, each end of each stick is provided with a pair of slits through which the side bands 25 and 26 are threaded, as shown in Fig. 12.

hen removing the sheets of rubber stock at the cutters table, the separating member will be permitted to fall into a suitable wire basket, and will automatically fold up in a natural manner. When completely unwound, the basket may be taken to a new reel and the separating member may then be attached to the core and used again in the same manner as described above.

While there have been disclosed in this specification several forms in which the invention may be embodied, it is to be understood that these forms are shown for the purpose of illustration only, and that the invention is not to be limited to the specific disclosures but may be modified and embodied in various other forms without departing from its spirit. In short, the invention includes all the modifications and embodiments coming within the scope of the following claims.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed as, new, and for which it is desired to secure Letters Patent, is:

1. In a reeling machine for winding sheet material, a core, a continuous flexible strip secured at its inner end to said core, said strip having a plurality of supporting rods located at intervals along its l ngth and connected thereto for separating the successive layers of said sheet from one another, the width of said strip being substantially the same as the length o'l' said rocs, whereby the entire width of said sheet material will be supported by said strip, said rods, when the strip is Wound up, being supported in radial alinement one upon the other.

2.. In a reeling machine for winning sheet material, a core, a continuous flexible strip connected at its inner end to said core, said strip having a plurality of sheet-supporting members located at intervals along its length for keeping the successive layers of said sheet material separated from one another, the intervals. between said sheet-supporting members increasing gradually from the inner to the outer end of said strip and in such a manner that said members will lie in radial planes, said sheet supporting members, when the strip is wound up, being su )ported in radial alineinent one upon the other.

3. In a reeling machine for winding sheet material, a core, a continuous flexible strip connected at its inner end to said core, said strip having a plurality of sheet-supporting members located at intervals along its length for keeping the successive layers 01" said sheet separated from one another, the intervals between said sheet-suporting members increasing gradually from the inner to the outer end of said strip, said supporting members being arranged to lie in a pair 0t radial planes at right angles to each other when the sheet has been wound up, said sheet supporting members, when the strip is wound up, being supported in radial alinement one upon the other.

t. In a machine for reeling sheet material in sucha manner that successive layers will be prevented from contacting with each other, a core, said core having at each end a pair of cross arms in alinement with each other, a wrapper'adapted to be wound upon said core, a plurality of separating sticks connected to said wrapper at intervals, said sticks and wrapper being adapter to separate the successive layers of sheet materialbeing reeled, said sticks, when the "r a is wound up, being supported in radial n 7 ent one upon the other.

5, In a machine for reeling sheet material, a core, a pair of cross arms arranged at the ends of said core respectively and in alinernent with each other, a ladder comprising a pair 0.1 continuous bands adapted to be wound upon the opposite ends o1 said core, Said bands having a plurality of sepa 1 rating sticks connected thereto at intervals along their lengths, a wrapper, said bands and wrapper being adapted to be inserted between successive layers of the sheet mate rial to permit the same to be wound up without contact with each other, said sticks, when the strip is wound up, being supported in radial alinement one upon the other.

6. In a machine for reeling sheet material, a square core, a pair of cross arms} arranged at the ends of said core respectively, and in alinement with each other, a pair of continuous bands adapted to be wound upon the opposite ends of said core, said bands having a plurality of separating sticks connected thereto at intervals along their lengths, a wrapper, said bands, sticks and wrapper being adapted to be inserted bet-ween successive layers of the sheet material to permit the same to be wound up without contact with each other, said sticks, when the strip is wound up, being supported in radial alinement one upon the other.

7 In a machine for reeling sheet material, a square core, a pair of .cross arms arranged at the ends of said core respectively and in alinement with each other, a pair of continuous bands adapted to be wound upon the opposite ends of said core, said bands having a plurality of separating sticks connected thereto at intervals along their lengths, a wrapper, said bands, sticks, and wrapper being adapted to be inserted between successive layers of the sheet mate rial to permit the same to be wound up with out allowing successive layers to contact with each other, one of the corners of said core having a socket to receive the innermost stick, said sticks, when the strip is wound up, being supported in radial alinement one upon the other.

8. Ina machine for reeling sheet material, a square core, a pair of cross arms arranged at the ends of said core respectively and in alinement with each other, a pair of continuous bands adapted to be wound upon the opposite ends of said core, said bands having a plurality of separating sticks connected thereto at intervals along their lengths, a continuous wrapper, said bands, sticks, and wrapper being adapted to be inserted between successive layers of the sheet material to permit the same to be wound up without allowing successive layers to con tact with each other, one of the corners of said core having a socket to receive the innermost stick. and a pair of clips for holding said innermost stick in said socket, said sticks, when the strip is wound up, being supported in radial alinement one upon the other.

9. In a machine for reeling sheet material, a core, a pair of cross arms arranged at the ends of said core respectively and in alinement with each other, a pair of bands aeapted to be wound upon the opposite ends of said core, said bands having a plurality of separating sticks connected thereto at intervals along their lengths, a wrapper, said bands, sticks, and wrapper being adapted to be inserted between successive layers of the sheet material to permit the same to be wound up without allowing successive layers thereof to contact with each other, the intervals between said sticks increasing from the inner to the outer end of said strip so that said sticks will be supported upon one another in radial planes.

10. In a machine for reeling sheet material, a prismoidal core, a pair of cross arms arranged at opposite ends of said core and in alinement with each other, a continuous separating member adapted to be wound upon said core, said member having a plurality of sticks connected thereto at intervals along its length, each stick having a pair of filling and spacing blocks arranged adjacent the sides thereof to maintainsaid sticks in alinement with each other, said sticks, when the strip is wound up, being supported in radial alinement one upon the other, said pairs of blocks being adapted to form angles in alinement with the corners of said core.

11.. In a machine for reeling sheet material, a core, a pair of cross arms arranged at opposite ends of said core and in alinement with each other, a continuous separating member adapted to be wound upon said core, said member having a plurality of sticks connected thereto at intervals along its length, each stick having a pair of filling and spacing blocks arranged adjacent the sides thereof to maintain said sticks in alinement with each other, said blocks having side clips to keep the successive layers from slipping laterally, said sticks, when the strip is wound up, being supported in radial alinement one upon the other.

12. In a device for separating successive layers of sheet material when wound upon a reel, a plurality of separating sticks having longitudinal slits, a pair of continuous flexible bands adapted to be threaded through said slits, whereby a ladder arrangement will be formed which may be wound upon said reel.

13. In a device to be wound upon a reel for separating successive layers of sheet material, a plurality of spaced rods, each .of said rods havinga pair of longitudinal slits, and a continuous flexible band adapted to be threaded through said slits and looped about said rods, whereby a ladder arrangement will be formed.

In testimony whereof, I have affixed rny signature to this specification.

JOHN H. ennnns. 

